The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-12-09
English cotton goods manufacturers


n the production of cheap cotton goods
through the increasing skill of their OPP !,
and the longdays, which range
RON twelve to eighteen hours. Strikes
md combinations are unknown. A
good deal of machinery has recently
been ordered from England.
By the new process of engraving,
which promises TO revolu.lonize the
arts, o picture is made direct from the
photograph, and is done altogether by
the action of light, By this method it
is possible to produce plates for print
ing with Photographic accuracy from
photographs, washed drawings, PEN
I'll sketches and mezzotint prints.
A great many lines of business here
tofors confined TO the east have, during
the past two or three years, been NOV
ing west. A western newspaper claims
that more cloaks and suits are made IN
Chicago now than in any other city i'll
the country. All kinds of manufactur-
ing are spllnging up throughout the
west.
The latest silk calculations 90 to show
that the capital employed the United
States is atout $50. 100000, that the
value of finished goods Is 500, 00o, 0oD,
and that so coo hands are engaged.
One-half of the entire production is
tarned out i'll New Jersey. That state
has 1856 establishments.
A fuel has just been patented in Dun
ham, Eng. that occupies only about
one-third the space of coal. The time
necessary 10 raise steam by its use VIII
be diminished two-thirds, the cost vi
fuel will be reduced more than one hall
and smoke viii be completely done
away with.
An Alliance firm will make two im-
mense cranes forthe Navy Department.
One viii lift a weight OF 125 tons and
have q span OF 62 feet; the other will
have q span Of 81 feet, travel $50 feet
and lift d weight Of 45 tons. 1t viii
take about twenty cars TO carry the
pieces.
The Spanish Government has order
ed six motors, two Of them of 80 horse
power each, which shall develop 3
speed of 600 revolutions per minute,
Tha! Government. it is understood, has
important schemes in hand involv.ng
large OUTLAWS in electrical appliances.
The manufacturers OF tile and drain
ago material in Indiana will meet on
December II add IA at indianapolis to
form q stronger organization. A meet
ing of the national association of clay
machinery manufacturers win meet at
the same time ard place.
The Brickmakers convention at Chi
cage agreed that American bricks shall
be eight and one-fourth inches long,tou
inches vide and two and o~nc-fourth
inches thick. This gives twenty bricks
Tor Il cubic foot of wall. Two hun-
dred years ago parliament ~endoayored
t. regulate the size OF bricks.
A pound of ten-penny cut nails will
do as much work RS two pounds of
wire nails. Taking the average of all
cnt nails they are worth nearly double
as much as wire nails, according 10
tests made 1t the Waterfowl Govern
ment arsenal.
Competition in electric lighting has
already depressed prices below = living
point in certain localities. Electric.
iAns say that there is q tendency To.
ward n consolidation of interests in
tended to check this sharp competi.
ton.
In eighty per cent. of the factories
of Russia the hours OF labor are twelve
and over. Night work is pursued in
onc-tifth.of the factories. The majority
open IT ) Il. III. and close N 8 %. IL.
Female night LABOR is prohiGued.
Field hands in China are paid ST.
per anunm with food, stray shoes ard
free Saving. 1t costs about s. pa
year for clothes. A great deal Of
Chinese land is divided up into farms
OF oue-siAth Of an acre.
manufacturers, large and small,
throughout the Ohio valley are more OF
less trouble on account of the shortage
Of coal. Several large brick-yara-
have shut down because of the high
price OF fuel.
The miners throughout the Western
states are preparing 10 hold d conven.
ton n pittshurg to arrange a scale Of
wages 10 he paid in tie various dis.
iriets throughout the country from and
after May i.